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WATCH: Meet Global Corruption’s Hidden Players

When the son of the president Equatorial Guinea, a desperately poor country, starts buying mansions in Florida and top of the range sports cars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, corruption, suggests Charmian Gooch, foun...

by Natasha Lipman

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Do These Videos Show Iranians Fighting in Syria’s War?

That Iran supports the Syrian regime is well known, but there has been little evidence of direct involvement on the ground. Now a series of videos purporting to show Persian-speakers dressed in military uniforms, operating...

by Global Voices

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How Long can Jordan Cling to Stability in a Fractured Middle East?

Last month the British Foreign Office lengthened its list of Arab states unsuitable for travel with the addition of Lebanon. Now Jordan appears more than ever to be a fragment of peace wedged between some of the most volatile s...

by Nadia Hasan

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The Procedures of Killing People Legally

Where was the world when the first 100,000 Syrians were killed? Where was the efforts for intervention when the first 2 million civilians, men, women, children and elderly fled from a conflict that didn’t care for collateral ...

by Ozlem Unat

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How Russians Read Putin’s NYT Op-Ed on Syria

It’s not every day that the Russian President pens an opinion piece in the New York Times, but it happened yesterday, and the American blogosphere promptly lost it collective marbles, as tweeting journalists and surprised o...

by Kevin Rothrock

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¡Viva Catalunya!

On Wednesday, the people of Catalonia celebrated their national day. Every year the streets of Barcelona fill with crowds donned in their national flag and colours. They are not only celebrating their culture and history but al...

by Nicky Armstrong

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4 Reasons To Watch The German Elections

1. A Dignified Affair Germany’s polls make a refreshing change for the seasoned election observer, more dignified than the circus of American votes and with more exciting coalitions than in Britain. Election campaigns are bri...

by Bruce Rothberg

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A Living Wage for the Nation

Last week, in a speech to the left wing think tank the Resolution Foundation, Rachel Reeves the UK MP for Leeds West, and Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; set out her parties ‘One Nation Labour’ approa...

by James Walker

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Will We Ever See an Atheist in the White House?

In God We Trust, the inescapable proclamation which notoriously takes pride of place on one of the most iconic and recognisable commodities on the planet; the American dollar bill. A 2012 Gallup Poll indicated that around 82% ...

by Oscar Isham

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WATCH: Meet Global Corruption’s Hidden Players

Do These Videos Show Iranians Fighting in Syria’s War?

How Long can Jordan Cling to Stability in a Fractured Middle East?

The Procedures of Killing People Legally

How Russians Read Putin’s NYT Op-Ed on Syria

¡Viva Catalunya!

4 Reasons To Watch The German Elections

A Living Wage for the Nation

Will We Ever See an Atheist in the White House?

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